Who gives a Rats ass about the next Microsoft disaster when the current
disaster is still new.

Maybe we should call FEMA in to help with the victims


"D. Spencer Hines" <poguemidden********.com> wrote in message
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> Microsoft Vienna may well be worth the wait, if it is indeed as radical a
> redesign as this indicates:
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>
> Windows Vienna - opening a new generation of operating systems
>
> September 7, 2006
>
> In the past 20 years, the Microsoft Windows operating system has
> accumulated
> old code libraries that brought it to the size it has today, 2.5 GB and
> about 50 million lines of code (Windows Vista).
>
> These old code libraries consume resources and are often the targets of
> security exploits.
>
> The best way to avoid such problems, is to start from scratch, which is
> close to what Microsoft plans to do with Windows Vienna.
>
> Windows Vienna will represent the start of a different generation of
> operating systems, bringing in new concepts and support for new types of
> hardware, along with a better security and a modular approach, which will
> allow future versions of Windows to be built more easily on Windows
> Vienna's
> engine.
>
> It is also likely that the future success of Microsoft's products will be
> strongly decided by the success of the new generation operating system.
>
> <http://www.windowsvienna.com/>
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>
> STARTING FROM SCRATCH...
>
> Sounds Quite Sensible...
>
> Waiting for Vienna, if one can, sounds increasingly attractive.
>
> XP Pro SP2 is a sweet OS.
>
> Vista may turn out to be as transient and inconsequential as Millennium --
> IF we can have Vienna in 2009.
>
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>
> New, But Associated Subject:
>
> I agree with Jerry, "HEMI-Powered" [what's your moniker mean, Jerry?],
> that
> I will NEVER leave any of my machines alone at night -- or any other
> time --
> to do a DEFRAG or a DISK IMAGE or a WINDOWS or AV UPDATE -- all by ITSELF.
>
> So, this silly-buggers business of "scheduling a weekly backup/download at
> 3AM" is absurd.
>
> I also will never allow the cursed AUTOMATIC UPDATES on any of my
> machines -- even for my Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware programs and Windows
> Update -- which would love to put IE7 on all my machines if I let it --
> because MS insists IE7 is a "CRITICAL UPDATE".
>
> Baloney et Twaddle!
>
> DSH
>
> Lux et Veritas et Libertas
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